Yeah, the no HDMI in the box thing sucks, no arguement. But your statement was that it was a forced interface, which it is most certainly not. You CAN bypass the HDMI and for many on BC kicks, they do. But component or HDMI should have been in the box.

And BTW, only one person in the media complained about the difficulty of setting the PS3 up and out of the box functionality. Until he mentioned this roughly a week after launch, there was not a single complaint in this regard on many a board. In fact, on many of the other message boards I frequent, most of the people complaining about this issue don't even have the console.

Those Xbox users are Live subscribers because they have no choice. I don't exactly remember Netscape offering Xbox Multiplayer for less. Each console maker has their services built in as a monopoly. Hell, if I had my choice, I'd say screw all of them and just go X-Fire on all my consoles. I'm tired of Sonys approach, I'm tired of Microsofts approach, and I'm damn tired of friend codes for every game lame shit Nintendo flings around. But I don't have that choice. So I have a username, a gamertag, and a friendcode, and shaking my head at all three companies in this war.

If it was Hideo Kojima or Shigeru Miyamoto, or even Yuji Naka leading the entire industry, I would agree Rumble is needed. But right now, rumble is primarily used to indicate explosions, hits, hitting a wall, all very rudimentary things, as if my tiny brain cannot register the giant long armed bastard nailing me against a wall and slashing away is damaging to my person without my controller vibrating it's constant, unweilding, and uninteresting indicator in my palm. Rumble, as a game feature, is long overdue in rising above the gimmick. Hell, they've had since Operation Wolf to make the exception the rule. But right now, it's about as useful as the gamesharing on PSP. Which is exactly why I usually disable it.

You know, for such a Microsoft fan, you'd think you would be willing to give Microsoft the ^5 on tilt controls for their Sidewinder controller on PC. Especially considering the tilt controller hit the market many, many months before Sony patented their motion control on May 12, 1999... mere days before PS2 was to be debuted, leading many to believe the PS2 would feature tilt controls. Or how PSP had a tilt dongle announced and shown before even the Revolution was publically debuted. As in, before the controllers or even the shape of the console was shown. I won't claim SixAxis as an innovation, but I sure as hell won't give Nintendo that ^5 when it belongs to Microsoft.

Now, you said your piece, and I've said mine. I'm not saying PS3 is flawless but what I am saying is that it seems your list was compiled by the top ten PS3 complaints overheard by 360 hyping EBgames employees. Most of them seem petty, and several of them have already been fixed.

And please, what did you really want from this thread? Did you want someone to actually offer up a counterpoint or did you, like the entire braindead masses of the Wii60 FTW movement, merely want 30-50 posts saying "LOLOL!!! ! ZOMG! PS3 is TEH SUX!" chanting you name in chorus for "telling how it is?" I've seen your posts on Joystiq.

And for the record, system admins can still be fanboys. The only question at this point is whether this is the cool kind of system admin who can take a countering point in the same spirit of debate the internet was built for, or are youthe kind of system admin who believes that, once someone has argued you into a corner, that person should no longer be able to post?

Wii60 FTW....